What are the opposite words for presiding over?

Presiding over typically means to be in charge or responsible for overseeing a particular event or situation. Some antonyms for this phrase might include words such as "subordinate," "underling," or "subjugated." These terms suggest a position of lesser authority or influence, rather than someone who is in charge. Other antonyms might include words like "abdicating," "relinquishing," or "yielding," which imply a giving up or relinquishing of power or control. Ultimately, the choice of antonym will depend on the specific context in which the word presiding over is being used, and what kind of opposite meaning is desired.

What are the antonyms for Presiding over?

• v.

  • command
  • follow
  .
  • direct
  • misguide
  ,
  • mismanage
  ,
  • neglect
  .
  • lead
  • comply
  ,
  • consent
  ,
  • obey
  .
  • supervise
  • serve
  .

Famous quotes with Presiding over

• To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

  Ronald Reagan
• My own pseudo-conclusion: That we've been damned by giants sound asleep, or by great scientific principles and abstractions that cannot realize themselves: that little harlots have visited their caprices upon us; that clowns, with buckets of water from which they pretend to cast thousands of good-sized fishes have anathematized us for laughing disrespectfully, because, as with all clowns, underlying buffoonery is the desire to be taken seriously; that pale ignorances, presiding over microscopes by which they cannot distinguish flesh from nostoc or fishes' spawn, have visited upon us their wan solemnities. We've been damned by corpses and skeletons and mummies, which twitch and totter with pseudo-life derived from conveniences.

  Charles Fort
• [Ike] was presiding over a situation in which history was turning into demography, in which judgment—and Ike possessed judgment with a capital J—was being drained out of every powerful situation, and marketing considerations were being pumped in.

  George W. S. Trow

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